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To be honest, I was bored to the point of distraction for most of the first episode. I went into the series with high expectations (Sunrise + Mecha = Win) so I was disappointed by the clumsy attempt at illiciting an emotional response from the audience. It just didn't work for me.

And yes, I know the first episode of any mecha series is probably going to feature the main character somehow being forced/coerced/tricked into piloting the giant suit that he has no interest in piloting. That's par for the course. I've just never been able to buy into shallow tricks like these. You can tell me all you want that I'm supposed to care about a character who has ~10 minutes screen time, but it's just not going to happen.

What I did like was the methodical actions of the silver-haired antagonist. The way he handled the protagonist was marvelous.

I understand why people wanted her to live, but I think she served her purpose and her death will toughen Haruto up so he can take action instead of sitting back and not trying to win.

But where's the melodrama in that? Just think: when the hero is about to finally get over the death of her (almost) girlfriend and move on with another girl, bam! said almost-girlfriend appears out of nowhere as an enemy vampire-cyborg-mecha!

(Just remember, I called it!)

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Originally Posted by Rosalena

And yes, I know the first episode of any mecha series is probably going to feature the main character somehow being forced/coerced/tricked into piloting the giant suit that he has no interest in piloting.

Oh, but he really wanted to pilot this mecha. I had to laugh when he was in the cockpit, randomly pushing buttons, pretty much going "move dammit, you're a mecha, I'm supposed to have my roaring rampage of revenge now!"

But where's the melodrama in that? Just think: when the hero is about to finally get over the death of her (almost) girlfriend and move on with another girl, bam! said almost-girlfriend appears out of nowhere as an enemy vampire-cyborg-mecha!

But where's the melodrama in that? Just think: when the hero is about to finally get over the death of her (almost) girlfriend and move on with another girl, bam! said almost-girlfriend appears out of nowhere as an enemy vampire-cyborg-mecha!

(Just remember, I called it!)

I totally get the same feeling. Something like that will happen or something very similar.

RIP Shoko, judging by the OP they already had plans to make someone else the main female character.

Actually the fact that she's portrayed with Saki in the OP instead of as some angelic/symbolic image makes it look less like she's gone for real.

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Everything melted from that laser blast.

Not that we see this at all. We just see a bare, scorched area after the fact. It's not like they had the time to conduct a search.

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The odds of surviving that doesn't look good.

The odds of surving that are far better than other odds we've seen in anime.

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I don't think people want to see melted, dripping, flesh juice that was once Shoko on the hot pavement sizzling.

(A little graphic description, but you get the idea)

They didn't have to show this to convey that she's dead.

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She's no CC and can't regenerate herself.

People didn't know she was an Immortal Witch when she took a headshot from a pistol in episode one. Then a couple episodes later, HELLO!
Not that I'm saying Shouko has some special abilities we don't know about (although for all we know, she does, or she'll get some from some lab guys at some point), but my point is that people couldn't have known C2 was really coming back then either.

And as playmaker2k pointed out, Nunnally.

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Plus, the death flag was that near confession at the shrine.

Or that was a fake death flag to make us think she's really gone. I know we've seen it before and recently, but I can't remember where.

unless they pay attention to minor details like Gundam 00 style (MSV cameos & Innovades standing in a group of ordinary people, etc.) as opposed to SEED's "i managed to survive explosions & losing my space suit while drifting in the vacuum of space & shoot lazers from the 4th dimension meme"

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"legends said that Alto Saotome made a correct decision, he left both Ranka Lee & Sheryl Nome to marry the skies & proceed to make love with her, it was a long sight to behold according to the witnesses, the sky is now pregnant"

I went back to that scene and she got blindsided by that luminescence. There was no way of escaping that.

Like Ero King wrote earlier, she was vaporized before the car.

I understand where you're coming from. It's okay, it'll take some time to heal.

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Or maybe not. I'm still in denial about Lelouch's passing even after all this time.

Except in Ero King's screenshots, you can still see Shouko in the second screenshot. In the episode, you can see her all the way until the explosion expands above her height, thus blocking her from view but not meaning it killed her.

If she's dead, she's dead. But I think there are a good number of indicators that suggest she's not, both in-series and out-of-series. (refer back to my list of indicators on the previous page of the thread) And we've only seen many, many times when supposedly a character can't survive something but does.

Plus, considering we've got a guy who got stabbed all the way through the heart and shot twice in the chest at close range, and survived because he was made into what appears to be a vampire, dying may not keep Shouko dead anyway.

And I don't think you meant it to be, but that last part there about healing and denial came off a bit insulting. It's about reason for doubt, as I listed earlier.